ownCloud 6 Released With Online Collaborative Document Editing, More

ownCloud, a free software alternative to proprietary web services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and others that you can install on your own server, has reached version 6.ownCloud 6For those not familiar with ownCloud, this is a tool that you can install on your server (there are also desktop and mobile sync clients) which comes with a web interface that provides access to file management, calendars, tasks, image gallery, music player, document viewer and more.It features file, contacts and calendar sync, quickly share files, calendars and so on, file versioning (you can easily revert the changes you make to a file) and support for external storage so you can mount Dropbox, Swift, FTPs, GoogleDrive, S3 and external WebDAV servers from ownCloud. More about ownCloud features.The latest ownCloud 6 features an improved design, performance improvements as well as new features:ownCloud Documents enables online, live, collaboration editing of standard documents – you can upload existing documents or create new documents from the ownCloud web interface and edit them inside the browser;a new share API was added – this enables app developers and partners to externally access all ownCloud sharing functions;the application API was enhanced for easier development of 3rd party apps;a new